With the modern age we live in, you’d think that we would have a better way to traverse out floors, but no. Instead we have these ineffective wasteful pieces of trash that take up a huge amount of space. Just to prove my point I got out my tape measure and took the dimensions of the space that my staircase in my house takes up, and here are the measurements:

1 meter wide or so

4.5 meters horizontally

as well as about 5 meters vertically.

that last number is huge, but think about it. The staircase does not just take up it’s surface area, but it also takes up that same surface area on the floor above. So I am in this case wasting 45,000 cm^2 of space, multiplied by two floors that’s 90,000 cm^2 that i can’t use for anything except my death hazard.

Then i thought about it. The staircase also invalidates all the space above it, even though that is empty space. You can’t put something useful like a sewing machine there since it’ll just fall through onto the floor below. So i looked at it and realized that i could multiply that number by 3 to get the three dimensional space that my staircase takes up, and I got 270,000 m^3 or about the size of a fucking oil tanker.

So to compare i got a ladder that I measured the dimensions off. For record this is the 24 ft. Fiberglass Extension Ladder with 300 lbs. Load Capacity Type IA Duty Rating from home depot website. I considered using the 32 ft. Fiberglass Extension Ladder with 300 lb. Load Capacity Type IA Duty Rating ladder since it is longer, but I realized that i could get the same length using the 24 ft. Fiberglass Extension Ladder with 300 lbs. Load Capacity Type IA Duty Rating ladder since it is, in fact, an extension ladder which would effectively double the length anyway.

So i measured this ladder and found that the horizontal space that it takes up when standing upright is about 5 cm^2 , which is a 800% decrease from the staircase. Already promising.

I then multiplied this by two which told me that, compared to a ladder a staircase takes up roughly 26900 times more space than a ladder.

So in short, stairs are dangerous and useless and waste space. We should just change to ladders